Research:Wikipedia is necessary, the internet implies it.

Contact

Leutha

University of East London

Research:Projects

This page documents a planned research project.
Information may be incomplete and change before the project starts.

Key Personnel

Fabian Tompsett User:Leutha

Project Summary

In light of discussions about how innovative Wikipedia is in relation to a long history of encyclopedic initiatives, this project will look at what relevance this has for editors of the English language Wikipedia.

This will be done through running an electronic survey

This survey will focus on

The Wikipedia community
The role of Wikipedia in knowledge management
Wikipedia's value as a storehouse of information
Learning and sharing
Wikipedia and Google
Wikipedia works in practice . . .

Methods

In order to recruit participants for our study, we must contact Wikipedians. We are committed to doing so in a responsible and unobtrusive matter. Our recruitment practices will adhere to the following rules:

- by randomly selecting from the Active User List page with people who have done at least 30 edits in the last thirty days.
- invitation by message on talk page

Dissemination

The research will be made available on Wikiversity.

Wikimedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects Protection

All the information will be anonymised. The research is subject to the Ethics policy of the University of East London

Benefits for the Wikimedia community

This research will give insight into the attitudes of our editors.

Timeline

This survey will be done in the first two weeks of April

Funding

This project requires no funding

References

Benkler, Y. (2002). Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and “The Nature of the Firm” Yale Law Journal, 369-446.

Benkler Y. (2006) Common wisdom: Peer production of educational materials http://www.benkler.org/Common_Wisdom.pdf accessed 23 December 2012

Coase R. (1937) ‘The nature of the firm’ Economica, 9 (1937), pp. 386–405

Flyvbjerg, B., (2002) Making social science matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Harraway D. (1988) ‘'Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective’' Feminist studies p 575-599.

Hunter L., (1999) Critiques of Knowing: Situated textualities in science, computing and the arts London:Routledge

Miller D., (2006) Out of Error:Further Essays on Critical Rationalism Aldershot: Ashgate

Tompsett F. (2011) ‘Open Copenhagen’ in Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen & Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Nebula

External links

Wikipedia is Necessary on Survey Monkey

Contacts

I can be contacted at u1050129(at)uel.ac.uk